WCRI: Rising Indemnity Costs a Sign of the Recession

California indemnity costs grew faster from 2007 to 2009 than in prior years, reflecting the impact of the recession on the state's workers' compensation system, the Workers Compensation Research Institute said on Monday.WCRI's CompScope Benchmarks for California, 12th Edition, showed that the average duration of temporary disability for claims with more than seven days' lost time increased at about 9% in California from 2007 to 2009. That was a greater rate than all but five of the 16 study states, with Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Louisiana and Indiana seeing greater increases...